Life in Derb Djedid.
Lots of photos of Marrakesh in Morocco.
Daily life, decor. Architecture

Monday, July 14, 2008

Last Summer at the Beach

One thing about the beaches in Morocco is that they're huge, and it's very easy to get away from the crowds.Here at Sidi Kaouki some 14km. south of Essouira a mist came in off the Atlantic shrouding everything in a romantic miasma.......out of which emerged the usual salesman selling "Rolex" watches.......

At Diabat, camels head towards Essouira and are about to ford a little stream which crosses the beach,

Fairly lonely young men with bicycles also going towards town.Also at Diabat.

This castle in the sand will only last a few more minutes.

Edmund Spenser wrote:

"One day I wrote her name upon the strand"

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,But came the waves and washed it away:Again I wrote it with a second hand,But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assayA mortal thing so to immortalize!For I myself shall like to this decay,And eek my name be wiped out likewise.Not so (quoth I), let baser things deviseTo die in dust, but you shall live by fame:My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,And in the heavens write your glorious name;Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue,Our love shall live, and later life renew.

Can you imagine that there are beaches when the sand is just as white, the sea just as green up in Lofoten.The water is icy could though, and still my daughter and her cousin, and my husband, decided to swim :-)Me? I took photos.

The beach is so atmospheric with a sea mist rolling in, but , for me, what a surprise to see camels emerging from it!I have lost count of how many secrets i have written in sand on beaches around the place...the sea knows EVERYTHING about me!

Beautiful beaches! I'm surprised they are so empty but then, that's a good thing. I like your description of a salesman selling rolex watches emerging from the romantic miasma...it's straight out of a wonderful novel!